Upper Limb 1 Flashcards
What clinical sign do you see when the long thoracic nerve is injured?
Winged scapula
What is 14
Lateral head of triceps brachii muscle
The coracohumeral ligament strengthens what aspect of the joint capsule
superior aspect
What is 1
First Rib
When may compression of the axillary artery be necessary?
Profuse bleeding occurs due to severe injury to the upper limb
What is the action of teres major on the shoulder joint?
Extension of shoulder joint in saggital plane
Adducts
Medially/internally rotates
What is E
Medial border
What is the role of the serratus anterior
Important role in protraction of the scapula
At what anatomical point does the subclavian artery become the axillary artery?
Lateral border of the 1st rib
What is G
Caracoid process
What is C
Trochlea
What is A
Medial head of triceps
What is B
Axillary artery
What is A
Scapular notch
What is 13
Teres major muscle
What is C
Glenoid fossa
What is 2
Levator scapulae
What is the pectoral girdle
The set of bones which connects the upper limb to the exial skeleton on each side
What muscles abduct the shoulder?
Middle part of deltoid Supraspinatus Trapezius Serratus anterior
What is A
Surgical neck
Injury to the lower trunk of the brachial plexus causes what?
(what is the cause of this injury, what is effected, what is it called)
Klumpke’s palsy
Muscles effected: -Intrinsic muscles of the hand -Ulnar flexors of the wrist and fingers
Cause of injury is undue abduction of the arm -Trying to grab a branch while falling
What is D
Anatomical neck
What are supraspinatus proximal and distal attatchments
Proximal Arises from supraspinous fossa of the scapula and from fascia overlying the muscle. The muscle converges on a tendon which passes under the acromion and above the shoulder joint.
Distal - Greater tuberosity of humerus
What is B
Superior angle
What is B
Basillican vein
What is E
Coracohumeral ligaments
What is 4
Rhomboid major muscle
What movement do the muscles of the subscapularis generate?
an adductor and medial rotator of the humerus.
What is I
Rhomboid major
What muscles cause lateral or external rotation?
Teres minor
Infraspinatus
What is A
Braciocephalic trunk
What is C
Infraspinous process
What is the scapulohumeral rhythm?
Consider abduction of the arm from the anatomical position. Initially, all movement will be at the glenohumeral joint, but beyond about the first 30 degrees, for every 3 degrees of abduction, 2 degrees occurs at the shoulder joint and 1 degree at the scapulothoracic joint (2:1 ratio)
What muscles are effected by Erb’s palsy? What nerves supply them?
Biceps brachii - Brachialis, Coracobrachialis (Musculocutaneous nerve)
Brachioradialis - (Radial nerve)
Deltoid - (Axillary nerve)
What is F
Subscapular fossa
What is J
Triceps brachii
What is 9
Lattisismus dorsi
What movement do the muscles of the supraspinatus generate?
Supraspinatus initiates abduction, and as part of the rotator cuff, helps to hold the humeral head in the socket throughout its range of movement. If supraspinatus is paralyzed, abduction may be initiated by leaning to the affected side
What is H
Inferior angle
What makes the median cubital vein useful for venepuncture
Often the median cubital vein is in a fixed position in the ante-cubital fossa
What is E
Intertubercular grove
What is B
Coronoid fossa
What is Purple
Roots
What forms the medial, posterior and lateral cords of the brachial plexus?
Lateral cord -Upper trunk and middle trunk
Posterior cord -Upper, middle and lower trunks
Medial cord -lower trunk
What are infraspinatus proximal and distal attachments
Proximal - Infraspinous fossa of scapula
Distal - The tendon inserts on the middle facet of the greater tuberosity of the humerus. There is a bursa between infraspinatus and the neck of scapula
What is 2
Spinous process of thoracic vertebrae
What is C
Supraglenoid tubercle
What is 5
Medial border of the scapula
Where does the serratus anterior arise from and insert to?
Arises as interdigitations from the ribs
Inserts into the scapula
What type of synovial joint are the acromioclavicular (AC) and sternoclavicular (SC) joints?
Acromioclavicular -> plane
Sternoclavicular -> saddle
What is 4
Clavicle
What is 8
Inferior angle of the scapula
What is 8
Teres major
What is B
Coricoid process
What is A
Trapezius
What is H
Rhomboid Minor
What muscles cause protraction of the scapula?
Serratus anterior
Pectoralis major and minor
The coracoacromial arch is made up of what 3 structures?
Acromion
Coracoid process of the scapula
Coraco-acromial ligament
What is F
Olecranon fossa
What is D
Axillary vein
What is F
Dorsal Venous network
What is the funtcion of the serratus anterior?
Protraction of the scapulae, but mainly serves to stabilise it during limb movements and to keep it pulled against the thoracic cage
What is 12
Posterior surface of scapula
What is 12
Long head of triceps bcrachii muscle
What are subscapularis proximal and distal attatchments
Proximal - Medial 2/3 of costal aspect of scapula
Distal - It passes laterally, forming a broad tendon which inserts on the lesser tuberosity, shoulder joint capsule, and the front of the upper shaft of the humerus. Some of the superficial fibers blend with the transverse humeral ligament.
What muscles extend the shoulder?
Posterior deltoid Latissimus dorsi Teres major
What is 5
Supraspinatus
What is 7
Transverse fibres of trapezius muscle
Where is the pectoralis minor located
Pectoralis minor lies deep to the pectoralis major muscle
What is I
Glenoid fossa
What is 14
Spine of Scapula
What is 6
Acromion
What is D
Greater tubercle
What is D
Glenohumeral ligament
What is K
Inferior angle
The axillary artery is the continuation of which artery?
Subclavian artery
What is G
Levator scapulae
What spinal nerve roots form the brachial plexus?
C5 C6 C7 C8 T1
What is F
Deltoid tuberosity
What forms the anterior, posterior, medial and lateral walls of the axilla?
Anterior: -Pectoralis Major and minor
Posterior wall -Subscapularis, Teres Major and Latissimus dorsi
Medial wall -Thoracic wall and serratus anterior
Lateral wall -Intratubercular sulcus of the humerus
Which bursa communicates with the shoulder joint cavity?
Subscapula bursa
What is E
Medial border
What movement do the muscles of the infraspinatus generate?
It is an lateral rotator of the humerus, but its more important action is as a member of the rotator cuff.
What is D
Subscapular fossa
What is 2
Position of costototransverse joints
What is 16
Teres minor muscle
What is 15
Greater tubercle of humerus
What is 5
Inferior angle of the scapula
What is 6
Infraspinatus